John PITCHFORTH ²

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There is some uncertainty over John's name. His surname was changed from Pitch to Pitchforth in the Sandal Magna marriage register, and his eldest son was given the name Pitch in the baptism register, but otherwise he used the name Pitchforth or Pitchford. However, his baptism has not been found in the Sandal Magna register, and DNA matching shows that he is related to the Elland branch of the Pitchforth family. The most likely baptism in the Elland register is dated 19 July 1731, as the son of Joseph Pitchforth.

John presumably moved away from Elland for work. He lived in Westside in Crigglestone, a few miles south of Wakefield in Yorkshire, and was a collier. He had four surviving children with his wife Ann Addy (qv), two sons and two daughters, all of whom married and had children. The eldest son John moved to Wakefield where he was an innkeeper and property developer, and where his three sons were tradesmen. John and Ann's eldest daughter Ann married Joseph Charlesworth, a shoemaker: their children were all baptised in Sandal Magna, but Ann and Joseph were buried in Stanley, to the north of Wakefield. The next daughter Jane (who was baptised as Mary) married John Warwick, a labourer in Hall Green near Crigglestone. Jane was a shopkeeper after her husband died in 1840, but was a pauper at the time of the 1851 Census, nine years before her death at the age of 94. The youngest son was Joseph (qv).

Additional source:
Keith Pitchforth (2005). A Family Remembered: A History of the Pitchforth family through six centuries. Pickard Communication: Sheffield

John married Ann ADDY, daughter of William ADDY and Jane SAILE, on 23 Jan 1760 in St Helen, Sandal Magna, Yorkshire.¹ (Ann ADDY was born in Hall Green, Crigglestone, Yorkshire ⁶, christened on 27 Sep 1733 in St Helen, Sandal Magna, Yorkshire,⁵ died in Painthorpe, Crigglestone, Yorkshire ⁷ and was buried on 29 Dec 1805 in St Helen, Sandal Magna, Yorkshire ⁸.)